Re: Marking bad sectors

[ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)]

>Robert J. Dull writes...

>> Is there anyway of "marking" these sectors as bad so that the operating
>> system never attempts to save or retrieve anything from them again?

90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T) writes:

>    Prosel-16 will do that for you (it creates a file which contains all
>the bad sectors).  I'm pretty sure Prosel-8 will do it too.

Yes, Prosel-8 will do this.  Run the utility called "Mr. Fixit".  There is
a find/mark bad sectors portion to this utility which can be run in a "find"
mode where Mr. Fixit will only find the bad sectors, not map them to a bad
sectors file.  It can also be run in a "fix" mode in which all bad sectors
will be mapped to a file & any bad sectors appearing within a file will be
remapped to good sectors & the data recovered if possible.

Dave
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